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This course will serve as an introduction to and covers broad aspects of environmental science. Students will focus their studies on topics such as how ecosystems work, biodiversity, natural resource management, energy resources and pollution. Like all other sciences, environmental science is a process of satisfying our curiosity about why things are the way they are and how things happen the way they do.

Objectives Include:

l. To develop an understanding of ecology and the relationships and cycles in an ecosystem.

2. To study the atmosphere and weather.

3. To explore the sources and effects of air pollution.

4. To investigate ways of controlling air pollution.

5. To study agriculture and food production

6. To develop an understanding of why species go extinct

7. To introduce study of the aquatic environment.

8. To develop an understanding of the aquatic ecosystem.

9. To investigate water quality and the chemical and physical factors that are involved.